Chapter 10

"Professor Snape!" Draco hissed. He pushed me away. I felt like a floosie.

"Hide in the closet...under the bed, anywhere!" He ordered.

"I'm not hiding in the closet then I'd have to come out!"

"Just go somewhere! I'm not allowed to have girls in here!"

I walked into his bedroom and closed the door leaving it open a crack.

Severus Snape stormed in. "Mr. Malfoy."

Draco acted calm. "Professor Snape."

"Have you seen Miss. Longbottom?" he asked.

Draco twitched slightly and I held my breath. "No."

Snape looked suspicious. "I see. May I remind you, Mr. Malfoy, girls in male dormitories is strictly prohibited?"

"Oh, of course."

"If she's not here, Mr. Malfoy, then why does Miss. Parkinson say that you and Miss. Longbottom are in here?"

Draco got angry. "She's a lying, bad mouth girl who has the biggest crush on me. Telling her 'no' just doesn't set in."

'Buy it please.' I thought. But of course he didn't.

"What- or who- is in your room?" He asked slyly.

I gasped. 'Now would be a good time to apparate... Stupid wards!'

"No one. Nothing." Draco whispered.

Snape walked towards my hiding spot. I tried to slip further behind the door but Snape pushed the door open and grabbed my arm. He dragged me out of the bedroom, I had never seen him so mad, not even at a Gryffindor. His face was set in to the deepest scowl I was sure his face would stick like that.

He didn't let go of my arm as he wretched open the door to the common room and down to his office.

Draco looked petrified. I tried to act calm, but I couldn't feel my arm anymore.

"Where are we going?" Draco asked his voice breaking.

"I'd advice you to shut your mouth, Mr. Malfoy."

Snape opened his office portrait and sat down behind his desk, back straight. He nodded at the straight backed chairs in front of his desk. Draco and I quickly sat down not wanting to anger Snape any further.

His voice was calm as he began to speak, which scared me even more than if he was yelling.

"What was that scene I interrupted?"

Neither of us spoke.

"Answer me!" He yelled.

We both jumped simultaneously.

"It was nothing, sir, we were just talking." Draco ventured bravely.

"Then why Mr. Malfoy was Miss. Longbottom hiding in your room, with her robes in disarray?"

"I was... I thought it was Harry Potter at the door!" I blurted out.

Snape raised an eyebrow.

"He's a vile, evil child which sends my mind into hysteria!"

"I was trying to help her by helping her hide from him." Draco added.

"You seriously wou8ld test my intelligence by making up that ridiculous story? How would Potter even get into the Slytherin common room without getting killed?" I saw that Snape was getting very annoyed.

"Pollyjuice potion?" Draco said snidely.

That touched a chord. He twitched, the vein in his neck throbbed. ' Draco mush know what he's talking about...'

"Mr. Malfoy! I have known you your whole life and you expect me to believe that?"

"No sir." Draco said casting his eyes downward, speaking in a quiet voice.

I had never seen him like that before, so... inferior. It just didn't fit his confident, arrogant- exterior. Was it all an act? Or was Snape more powerful than I thought? I became overwhelmed with fear of my new, unknown father. What did I get myself into?

"As for you, Miss Longbottom..."

My head snapped up.

"What is your pathetic excuse for being in Mr. Malfoy's room? Is it perhaps that you were the one, forcing him to break the rules?"

"How could you even say something like that?" I was incredulous.

"Because it would be so characteristic of your mother!" He spat.

I froze.

"How do you think you came to be? By love?" he sneered.

I was determined not to cry, not over him.

I rose slowly from my chair and walked out of the office. Someone was running after me. I ignored Draco and went into the Slytherin common room and quickly up to the girl's dormitory where I knew he could not follow.